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This November, please take the time to re-think your positions and be very sure you are really voting for the credentials of the man and not his personality. This country is so deeply in debt, about half of Americans are on some form of public assistance, one in six is in poverty. Our foreign policy is not working or nonexistent. We are falling, falling, falling off the world stage. We are going to be in the same situation as Greece before long. We need hope and change this time in a very big way, not just the failed promises of last time. I am choosing Romney because of his record of being able to turn things around. Because in my opinion a man who can give away a fortune and then make another one is pretty smart. He took no salary for his time as Governor and he is very rich, so I don't think he is in this for the perks and wealth. Let's try to leave this country better off than it is now for our children and grandchildren. Let's not allow our own shortsightedness to get in the way of what is best for generations to come.
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This is why Bush would not sign the Stem Cell Research:There was an amendment called the Dickey-Wicker Amendment. This amendment was signed BY CLINTON and prohibited the HHS from using funds for the creation of human embryos for research purposes or for research in which human embryos are destroyed.
Bush supported ADULT STEM CELL RESEARCH and supported federal legislation that finances adult stem cell research, but he did not support EMBRYONIC stem cell research. On August 9, 2001, he signed an executive order lifting the ban on federal funding for the 71 existing lines of stem cells.
The Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2005 was vetoed by Bush because it would have allowed stem cell research on discarded human embryos and the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2007 was almost the same exact bill. Bush did not want HUMAN EMBRYOS to be used for research...but....
In 2009, H.R. 873 and H.R. 4808, they offered another one called Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act of 2009 that Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct and support research that utilizes human embryonic stem cells, regardless of the date on which the stem cells were derived from a human embryo. Limits such research to stem cells that meet the following requirements: (1) the stem cells were derived from human embryos donated from in vitro fertilization clinics, were created for the purposes of fertility treatment, and were in excess of the needs of the individuals seeking such treatment; (2) prior to donation, it was determined that the embryos would never be implanted in a woman and would otherwise be discarded; and (3) the individuals seeking fertility treatment donated the embryos with written informed consent and received no financial or other inducements and I believe this is the one you're speaking about.
I don't see where any of these 3 passed but in March 2009, Obama REVERSED President Bush's 2001 order barring the NIH from funding research on embryonic stem cells using 60 cell lines.
Sorry, I get carried away sometimes with looking things up....but it's better to know truth than fiction, don't you think?